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While it is easy to criticize, it is less easy to act. However, this is what led Claude Camus, user representative for 19 years within the ARUCAH (Association of Representatives of Users in Clinics, Hospital Associations and Hospitals), to become part of the system. health to try to make it evolve in the right direction. And there’s no shortage of bread on the board, since according to him:
“For almost 40 years, governments on the right and on the left have continued to limit the resources allocated to public hospitals, on the mistaken principle that fewer doctors generate fewer patients and therefore less expenditure. … “.
Fatal error since the Lons hospital sank – like others – a few years ago into budgetary failure with a deficit of nearly € 12 million.
Two provisional administrators have therefore been appointed to redress the bar, something which the current director, Guillaume Ducolomb, is also working on. Members of the Cercle Condorcet have not failed to notice in passing that the most costly care for society comes from the last months or days of patients’ lives.
Avoid overconsumption of treatments
But in addition to a real political will at the top of the State, the levers of action to prevent the French system from collapsing also come under civic responsibility and the duties of patients. Limiting medical nomadism and the overconsumption of treatment, prevention rather than cure: these are ways to ensure that our health system (still considered one of the most efficient in the world) to live for a long time, and if possible in good health.
Beyond economic considerations, Claude Camus confessed: “I did not want to be an agitator of democratic molecules”, preferring to find a compromise between an ethics of responsibility and an ethics of conviction, the latter professing that a human life does not exist. is priceless. Claude Camus, however, raised a few points to improve: put more humanity in the announcement of deaths that have occurred in hospital, no longer take some patients out at midnight when they find themselves alone outside, with no one to welcome them by example. Decisions taken without a doubt to free up such precious beds, a point that was not discussed during this monthly conference.
According to Claude Camus, hospitals are severely audited every four years, to know their real situation in relation to the standards in force, always more demanding. And that of the dilapidated pharmacy housed inside the Hôtel-Dieu raises questions. The solution could come from an extramural platform capable of supplying all the hospitals of the Jura Sud territory hospital group (from Saint-Claude to Champagnole and Morez via Lons, etc.). A soap opera that dragged on since the Hôtel Dieu, which was expected to become “THE” great museum of fine arts in the region, seems to be called into question.
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